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This lists some 'notorious' Killicks and some of their 'biodata' Dr Charles Frederick Rowe Killick John Kyllyk - Citizen & Vintner John Killick - would be escapologist Sir Stephen Killik Kt, K.B.E, K.C.V.O. Dr Charles Frederick Rowe Killick 1896-1998 Doctor in Williton, Somerset for more than 50 years. One of the longest lived Killicks. He was 101 when he died in 1998 Henry Fison Killick 1839-1930 Henry Fison Killick, was a keen family and local historian on the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He was born in Berkshire and his notes, dated 15 February 1927, refer to him being ‘taken as a boy to Bradford (Yorkshire) in 1847’. In his notes he stated that he “broke off all connexion (sic) with my paternal relatives 60 years ago owing to their scandalous treatment of my father’s family and know nothing more of them.” This animosity resulted from the break-up of the partnership of ‘Richard Killick & Henry Killick’ Grocers, Tallow Chandlers & Tea Dealers in Hungerford, Berkshire, when Henry's father, also called Henry, died in Newbury, in 1846. Will we ever know the reason for this dispute? Henry Fison Killick was born in 1839 in Sussex and died in 1930 in Bournemouth, which was then in Hampshire. He married Anne Sparham in 1869 in the Otley registration area, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Anne died 1925, she and Henry were cousins. Henry Fison Killick seems quite elusive, he is yet to be found in both the 1881 and 1901 Censuses. However, there are several entries in the 1891 Post Office Directory for Bradford, where he is listed as a Magistrate for the Borough of Bradford, as a solicitor in the practice of Killick Hutton & Vint, which then ‘traded’ as “Killick Bradford”. He was also at that time a Vice-President of the Bradford Law Student’s Society. Archived documents relating to this practice and to Vint, Hill & Killick are held by the West Yorkshire Archives. Reference can be found to them on the website www.a2a.pro.gov.uk. The Access to Archives website also refers to an index of papers written by him in Volumes 18 to 23 of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society’s Journal. 1906 saw his appointment as a member of the Royal Commission enquiring into the Canals and Inland Waterways of the United Kingdom. Their reports were published between 1906 and 1909. He was also Chairman of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company. In the 1881 Census his wife Ann, aged 33, and described as ‘Head of Household’ and a ‘Solicitor’s Wife’ together with children Catherine, Edward and Charles was at Micklefield Terrace, in Rawdon, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Also at the house was a visitor, Percy L Fison, age 26 and a banker’s clerk. Henry Fison and Ann Killick had 5 children:
In 1927 Henry Fison Killick was living in Bournemouth on the South Coast of England. However, before that he had lived for a time at Thetford in Norfolk, in the King’s House, which had previously been the home of Cornell Henry Fison. Henry's father married his second wife, Sarah Fison, in Barningham, Suffolk. This is only about 13 miles from Thetford, to where Henry Fison Killick moved in the late nineteenth century. The Fison family in this area have resided in Barningham at least back to the 16th Century. It would be easy to assume that if Henry Fison Killick had moved into King’s House then perhaps his wife had inherited an interest in the Kings House or as he was a solicitor ‘in the family’ he acted as an executor or administrator of C. H. Fison’s estate. Henry was from the Rotherfield branch of the 'S' Tree. Dateline 1758 - St Lawrence River, Arcadia The Fleet carrying the British Army commanded by General Woolf navigated the treacherous St Lawrence River to land the Army near Quebec. General Woolf was in the Royal Navy Frigate Richmond preceded by the transport Goodwill. Goodwill's Master was 'Old Killick'. A record of his exploits was recorded by Capt John Knox of the 43rd Regiment of Foot. Who noted in his book The Siege of Quebec and the Campaigns in North America 1757-1760, first published 1769. “Anecdotes abound and many minor characters are vividly illuminated, like old Killick, the master of one of the transports taking Wolfe’s army up the St Lawrence, who refused to allow one of the captured French pilots to touch the helm of his ship." Capt Knox and his party were moved from a small New England craft and wrote “and our detachment, with their baggage, were removed on board the Goodwill transport, being a cat of three hundred and forty tons: this was a most agreeable exchange, being in all respects better accommodated, than we could possibly be in the small craft of New England; our poor soldiers have also benefitted, as all the articles of provisions in their new quarters are much better than those they have been lately used to, and they are now supplied with ship-beer, to which they have been for a long time strangers.” “The master of the Good-will, who is an elderly man, one of the younger brothers of Trinity-house, a pilot for the Thames and an experienced mariner, says he has sailed up most of the principal rivers in Europe, and that he esteems the river St Lawrence to be the finest river, the safest navigation, with the best anchorage in it, of any other within his knowledge; that it is infinitely preferable to the Thames or the Rhone, and that he has not yet met with the least difficulty in working up. He added ‘when we go higher up, if they should put a French pilot on board of me, ye shall see, masters, how I treat him’.” “At three PM on 25 June a French Pilot was put on board each transport, and the man who fell to the Good-will’s lot, gasconaded at a most extravagant rate, and gave us to understand it was much against his inclination that he was to become an English pilot. The poor fellow assumed great latitude in his conversation; said ‘he made no doubt that some of the fleet would return to England, but that they should have a dismal tale to carry with them; for Canada would be the grave of the whole Army, and he expected, in a short time to see the walls of Quebec ornamented with English scalps’. Had it not been obedience to the admiral, who gave orders that he should not be ill used, he would certainly have been thrown overboard. “At four PM we passed the Traverse, which is reputed a place of the greatest difficulty and danger between the entrance of the St Lawrence and Quebec: it lies between Cape Tourmonte (a remarkably high, black-looking promontory) and the East end of Orleans on the Starboard side and the Isle de Madame on the Larboard. Off Orleans we met some of our ships at war at anchor.” ….. “As soon as the pilot came on board today, he gave directions for the working of the ship, but the Master would not permit him to speak; he fixed his mate at the helm, charged him not to take orders from any person except himself, and going forward with his trumpet to the forecastle, gave the necessary instructions. All that could be said by the commanding officer and the other gentleman on board was to no purpose; the pilot declared we should be lost, for that no French ship ever presumed to pass there without a pilot. ‘Ay, ay, my dear’ (replied our son of Neptune) ‘but d----- me I’ll convince you, that an Englishmen shall go where a Frenchman dare not show his nose.’ The Richmond frigate being close astern of us, the commanding officer called out to the captain, and told him our case; he enquired who was the master was -- and was answered from the forecastle by the man himself, who told him that ‘he was old Killick, and that was enough’. I went forward with this experienced mariner, who pointed out the channel to me as we passed, showing me, by the ripple and colour of the water, where there was any danger; and distinguishing the places where there were ledges of rock (to me invisible) from banks of sand, mud or gravel. He gave his orders with great unconcern, joked with the sounding-boats who lay off each side with different coloured flags for our guidance; and when any of them called to him, and pointed to the deepest water, he answered, ‘Aye, aye, my dear, chalk it down, a d------d dangerous navigation -- eh? If you don’t make a sputter about it, you’ll get no credit for it in England’, etc. After we had cleared this remarkable place, where the channel forms a complete zig-zag, the master called to his mate to give the helm to somebody else, saying ‘D----- me if there are not a thousand places on the Thames fifty times more hazardous than this; I am ashamed that Englishmen should make such a rout about it.’ The Frenchman asked me if the Captain had not been here before. I assured him in the negative, upon which he viewed him with great attention, lifting, at the same time, his hands and eyes to heaven with astonishment and fervency.” Another book with this tale is Quebec 1759, The Siege and the Battle, a reprint of the book written in 1959 by C P Stacey to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle, with new material and editing by Donald E Graves, a Canadian Military Historian. This updated edition was published in Toronto in 2002. This states that 'Old Killick's' name was Thomas Killick. John Killick obtained some notoriety when, in March 1996, his girlfriend hi-jacked a helicopter at gun-point forcing the pilot to land inside an Australian Prison where John was being held. John was later recaptured. John Kyllyk - Citizen & Vintner Jno. Kyllyk, Citizen and Vintner of London, was evidently a man of substance and much trusted by his fellow Vintners. His business was in London and he probably resided in the Vintry, though he also connections with Nutfield and Bletchingley in Surrey and as the name was common in the area of Nutfield we may conclude that it was from that district that he sprang. A Citizen and Vintner of London in the 15th century was often a wealthy merchant, trading extensively in the importation of foreign wines. The Ward of Vintry, in the City of London, was named from it being that part of the City where the Vintners had their warehouses, and where wines were landed from shipping on the Thames. (Vintners Hall is now located close to the Thames.) Their Guild or Company (which still exists as the Vintners Company) was of great antiquity, claiming chartered rights from 1363. The Company is now one of the twelve Great Companies of the City of London. To this Company John Kyllyk was evidently much attached, for he gave valuable property to it by his Will “for the relief of poor brethren of the Mystery”, and desired to be buried in the Church of St Martin in the Vintry, with which the Guild was specially connected. Probate of the Will was made at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. See Killick Wills. he also acted as a Trustee of bequests made to the Vintners Company. The Vintners Company have for centuries maintained and owned swans on the River Thames. They and the Dyers Company are the only City Companies who do so, all other Swans are held to be the property of the Sovereign. The Vintners Company had a distinctive mark for their swans, namely two nicks or figures of ‘V’, the first letter of their name. They, together with the Royal Swanherd and representatives of the Dyers Company, still make annual excursions upon the River to mark their swans which are caught and marked (Ed. Now by ringing the birds. To see more about this annual event of Swan Upping see www.the-river-thames.co.uk). The excursion is usually in July each year, but may be any time after St.Peter’s Day (June 29th). John Spencer Killick – Obituary Writer & Civil Engineer. John Spencer Killick, from the S Tree, contributed to the Oxford University press Dictionary of National Biography obituary of Sir Charles Herbert Bressey, (1874–1951), civil engineer. In 1921 Bressey had succeeded J S Killick as chief engineer for roads, at the British Ministry of Transport, having been appointed by Sir Henry Percy Maybury, (1864–1943). J S Killick also contributed to Sir Henry Maybury’s obituary in the ODNB and was married to Sir Henry’s daughter. Peter Gorringe Killick 1863-1930 Borough Surveyor of the Borough of Finsbury. Now part of the London Borough of Islington. Killick Street, Kings Cross, London was named after him. Sir Stephen Killik Kt, K.B.E, K.C.V.O. Stephen Henry Molyneau Killik (1861 - 1938) was a Sheriff, Alderman and Lord Mayor of the City of London. His latter appointment was during King George V's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1935. Sir Stephen was 'knighted' three times.
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